[[http://​posl.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/​~kamei/​|{{:​en:​yasutaka-kamei.jpg?​200 |http://​posl.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/​~kamei/​}}]] Yasutaka Kamei is an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan. He has been a research fellow of the JSPS (PD) from July 2009 to March 2010. From April 2010 to March 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests include empirical software engineering,​ open source software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). His work in international research collaboration has been published at premier venues like ICSE, FSE, ESEM, MSR and ICSM, as well as in major journals like TSE, EMSE and IST. He received the B.E. degree (2005) in Informatics from Kansai University, and the M.E. degree (2007) and Ph.D. degree (2009) in Information Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

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Yasutaka Kamei is an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan. He has been a research fellow of the JSPS (PD) from July 2009 to March 2010. From April 2010 to March 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests include empirical software engineering,​ open source software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). His work in international research collaboration has been published at premier venues like ICSE, FSE, ESEM, MSR and ICSM, as well as in major journals like TSE, EMSE and IST. He received the B.E. degree (2005) in Informatics from Kansai University, and the M.E. degree (2007) and Ph.D. degree (2009) in Information Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

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**Dr. Tim Menzies**

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[[http://​menzies.us|{{:​en:​timmenzies.jpeg?​200 |http://​menzies.us}}]] Tim Menzies (Ph.D., UNSW, 1995) is a full Professor in CS at North Carolina State University where he teaches software engineering and search-based SE.

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His research relates to synergies between human and artificial intelligence,​ with particular application to data mining for software engineering.

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He is the author of over 230 referred publications;​ and is one of the 100 most cited authors in software engineering out of over 39,000 researchers.

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In his career, he has been a lead researcher on projects for NSF, NIJ, DoD, NASA, USDA, as well as joint research work with private companies.

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Prof. Menzies is the co-founder of the PROMISE conference series devoted to reproducible experiments in software engineering.

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He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,​ Empirical Software Engineering and the Automated Software Engineering Journal. In 2015, he will serve as co-chair for the ICSE'​15 NIER track.